Sthitaprajna saw fit to inform LI that:
>As the resident email expert, you should be recommending venema's
who, me? ;)
>postfix rather than sendmail. Postfix works great for me at home and
>is pitifully easy to set up. qmail is prolly for the big servers, on
>my home setup,it took up more resources than a mail daemon should.
I don't want to start an MTA war. Next, someone says "qmail" , say. One
favorite mta I've been experimenting with is exim - http://www.exim.org -
brilliant mta.
>BTW, I read somewhere that allman releases a commercial version of
>sendmail that is a generation ahead of the official releases that
>people like us download. What is this one, closed source or something?
http://www.sendmail.com (note com, not org). Closed source, commercial.
NT version also available, comes with a domain control panel etc.
Not "a generation ahead" or anything. Just plain easier to configure for
point and click lovers. For the newer sendmails, you most likely _don't_
want to go around hacking m4 rulesets. 99% of the time you enable /
disable a feature in sendmail.mc and regenerate sendmail.cf, or make a
change in sendmail.cw or elsewhere. (In rare cases, you may have to write
something / download it from several code examples on the net).
The Bat book (Allman and Costales O'Reilly version) is for 8.8.8 - and is
quite outdated. Still comprehensive, but sendmail has changed a lot. It
is not the nightmare that the bat book makes it out. BTW if you have
updated to 8.10.x, then _all_ the file paths (and most of the filenames)
have changed. You can more or less throw away the bat book now - the
sendmail docs are quite extensive.
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